Example sentences for: saddled

How can you use “saddled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If I have "saddled myself with political responsibilities," it has not been consciously, but I don't think that would be a bad thing for any critic to do, at least when a film makes it appropriate.

  • It is screamingly obvious to everyone who knows and loves her that the trouble lies with my mother and not, as she would have it, with the parade of horrible bosses fate has saddled her with.

  • Doctorow's 1975 novel about turn-of-the-century America gets saddled with forgettable tunes by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally that is "thuddingly didactic," especially on race (Lloyd Rose, the Washington Post ). The show has "the aura of something assembled by corporate committee," says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.

  • Lewinsky did not ask to be saddled with hundreds of thousands in legal fees.

  • For a party that thought it was leading an unstoppable revolution less than two years ago, it can't be much fun to be saddled with an old gray mare of a presidential candidate like Dole, or to be faced with the possibility of losing control of Congress to an opposition they believe to be not just wrong, but on the wrong side of history.


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